Dorsanum

Dorsanum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Dorsaninae of the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.^[1]

Dorsanum
Five views of a shell of Dorsanum miran (Bruguiere, 1799)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Nassariidae
Genus:	Dorsanum Gray, 1847
Type species
Buccinum politum Lamarck, 1822
Synonyms[1]
Bullia (Dorsanum) Gray, 1847 Dorsanum (Dorsanum) Gray, 1847 · accepted, alternate representation † Duplicata Korobkov, 1955 † Duplicatula Kolesnikov, 1939

Species

Subgenera :

• Dorsanum (Dorsanum) Gray, 1847

Species within the genus Dorsanum include:

• † Dorsanum estotiensis Lozouet, 1999
• † Dorsanum gaasensis Lozouet, 1999
• † Dorsanum javanum K. Martin, 1931
• † Dorsanum laeve (van Voorthuysen, 1944)
• † Dorsanum meyni (Beyrich, 1854)
• Dorsanum miran (Bruguière, 1789)
• † Dorsanum subpolitum (d'Orbigny, 1852)

Species brought into synonymy

• Dorsanum (Adinus) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 : synonym of Bullia Gray, 1833
• Dorsanum (Adinus) javanum K. Martin, 1931 represented as Dorsanum javanum K. Martin, 1931 (alternate representation)
• Dorsanum belangeri (Kiener, 1834):^[2] synonym of Bullia tranquebarica (Röding, 1798)
• Dorsanum granulosum (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Naytia granulosa (Lamarck, 1822)
• Dorsanum gruveli Dautzenberg, 1910: synonym of Bullia gruveli (Dautzenberg, 1910)
• Dorsanum mauritianum (Gray, 1839):^[3] synonym of Bullia mauritiana Gray, 1839
• Dorsanum moniliferum (Kiener, 1834) : synonym of Buccinanops monilifer (Kiener, 1834)
• Dorsanum terebraeforme Dautzenberg, 1913: synonym of Bullia terebraeformis (Dautzenberg, 1912)

References

1. Dorsanum Gray, 1847. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 February 2011.
2. Dorsanum belangeri (Kiener, 1834). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
3. Dorsanum mauritianum (Gray, 1839). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.

External links

• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
• Gray J.E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 15: 129-219
• Galindo, L. A.; Puillandre, N.; Utge, J.; Lozouet, P.; Bouchet, P. (2016). The phylogeny and systematics of the Nassariidae revisited (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99: 337-353